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COLONIAL HEIGHTS - On Friday, Tussing Elementary School will be celebrating its principal, David K. Staples' 10th year! The Tussing PTO, along with teachers and faculty, prepared a surprise celebration in Mr. Staples' honor to coincide with the school's yearly Christmas Sing-A-Long. Unfortunately, because of the snow, the Sing-A-Long was cancelled, so a special assembly has been scheduled just for Mr. Staples that will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Each class has been asked to prepare a submission on their favorite "Mr. Staples Memory." The Pre-Kindergarten class led by Cindy Davis and Susan Preston submitted a large poster wrapped in paper hearts, while Cindy James' 5th graders all wrote heartfelt, and more often than not, funny letters. 5th grader, Jacob Williams, starts his letter with "So you think you're kind? Wait 'till you meet my buddy and principal Mr. Staples. He's talented, helpful, and full of jokes. If you want to hear what else I think about you, you'll have to read this letter!" Tussing students are putting their creative skills to the test in order to make this a celebration Mr. Staples is sure to remember for years to come. Beginning on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, there was a display in the main hallway with a submission from each of Tussing's 633 students.
Dr. Joseph Cox, superintendent of Colonial Heights Schools, Mayor C. Scott Davis, past students, staff, parents and various media outlets have all been invited to attend the celebration that will culminate with cupcakes and commemorative ribbons for all in attendance.
For more information, contact Kandi Edmonds, Tussing PTO president, at (804) 721-8532.


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China's food production under water and land limitations
Hoisungwan, Piyatida
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Dennis McLaughlin.
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The future availability of the natural resources (water and land) needed for food production is highly uncertain. Evidence shows diminishing natural resources and growing food demand throughout many parts of the world. China is one of the countries that face the challenge of managing its finite water and land resources to support their population. Difficulties mainly arise from: (1) the geographic mismatch between the location of water resources and available land; (2) a large and growing number of population; and (3) limited natural resources per capita. This thesis presents a systematic approach to evaluate the effects of water and land constraints on food production and applies it to China as a case study. Based on the basic principle of water and land balance, crop resource requirements, and per capita consumption, the assessment of natural resources limitations on food production can be formulated into an optimization model, with the objective function maximizing the number of people fed subject to resource constraints. This formulation makes it possible to systematically and efficiently evaluate the effects of natural resource constraints for such a complex and large scale study regions such as China. Even though our approach is based on the basic principle, we incorporate several significant features into the model to realistically represent the spatial and temporal heterogeneity in climate, land use, and crop requirements. Our analysis is conducted at a detailed spatial resolution of 0.5' by 0.5', includes water movement at the same resolution, accommodates the mixture of crops in people's diet, and distinguishes irrigated from rain-fed agriculture. Our optimization model presents an average long term analysis. The model is developed and calibrated to reproduce long-term observed conditions during the nominal period of 1990- 2000. We then use the model together with globally and locally available data to make future predictions of China's food production capacity during the future period of 2046-2065. These future predictions include the impacts of the South-to-North Water Diversion project and projected climate change. The future climate scenarios are taken from the general circulation model predictions and represent diverse seasonal and regional patterns. Regionally, land is a limiting factor in the south, while water is a limiting factor in the north. Our results suggest that irrigation and multiple-cropping are keys in enhancing China's food production capacity to support increasing population. The spatial and seasonal distribution of rainfall changes is critical for agriculture in meeting future food requirements under climate change.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2010.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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Unlike River Otters, Sea Otters Have Cute Webbed Feet!
The focus of Neah Bay's Cape Flattery wildlife tour emphasizes marine wildlife and Olympic Peninsula birds. The relatively common occurrence of Gray Whales, Sea Otters, and Sea Lions make Neah Bay's Cape Flattery Tour a popular destination. The importance of a naturalist guide and spotting scope can not be overemphasized. The Cape Flattery coastline demonstrates the power of tides and storms through sea caves, sea stacks, and rocky islets.
A Cape Flattery wildlife tour provides a must-see Olympic Peninsula tour destination that is not in Olympic National Park. Cape Flattery is considered the northwestern-most point of the continental United States and is located on the Makah Reservation.
After a short walk on the Cape Flattery trail, enjoy views of Tatoosh Island, sea stacks, sea caves, and a cacophony of currents and wave action. It is not uncommon to see Tufted Puffin, Gray Whale, Sea Otter, or Sea Lions with a spotting scope and knowledgeable wildlife and birding guide. In fact, the Gray Whale fluke (tail) photographed was taken on a birding tour to Cape Flattery, not from a boat.
Northwestern-most point in the continental U.S.
The amazing biodiversity found in Neah Bay can be partly attributed to an outstanding position between the Washington Coast and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Cape Flattery trail leads you on a short walk through coastal forest thick with old-growth Western Hemlock, banana slugs, and multi-colored fungi, eventually leading to multiple viewing platforms that overlook a dynamic rocky shoreline and Tatoosh Island. There are quite a few wildlife viewing spots in and around Neah Bay in addition to Cape Flattery.
Once you leave Clallam Bay, the drive to Neah Bay on highway 112 is arguably the best stretch of road for stunning views of Washington's rocky shoreline, including headlands and rocky outcroppings. The road hugs the Strait of Juan de Fuca and many pullouts lead you down to the both rocky and sandy shorelines. Bald Eagles will use every appropriately large tree adjacent to the water for nesting in the spring. Pastures provide good spots for potential Roosevelt Elk viewing. This drive should never be rushed as Gray Whales can literally swim right past you.
The Makah have made Neah Bay their home for countless generations. Neah Bay's Cape Flattery tour concentrates on wildlife and leaves the cultural aspects of Neah Bay to be interpreted by the Makah people. Ideally, you will plan to visit the Makah Museum either during your Cape Flattery tour or at some point during your Olympic Peninsula visit. Neah Bay does not have fee stations like in Olympic National Park but there is a $10 Makah recreation pass that allows visitors to support Neah Bay's natural attractions like Cape Flattery.
Unlocking the biodiversity of distant West End Olympic Peninsula wildlife and hiking tour destinations will be an exploration of discovery. Olympic Peninsula biodiversity lists are therefore still works in progress.


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Dewi Danu is the water goddess of the Balinese Hindus, who call their belief-system Agama Tirta, or belief-system of the water. She is one of two supreme deities in the Balinese tradition.

See also
Danu (Asura)

External links
Ulun Danu Batur Sacred Temple.
 J. Stephen Lansing: A Thousand Years in Bali. The Long Now Foundation.
Direct Water Democracy in Bali.

Hindu goddesses
Indonesian goddesses

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Mike and Rose Kloeg speak to MiNDFOOD Radio about their 'Producer of the Year' award.
MiNDFOOD Radio speaks to winners of the MiNDFOOD Visa Wellington on a Plate – Producer of the Year Award.
Mike and Rose Kloeg of the Clareville Bakery in Carterton speak about what it feels to be recognised for their beautiful product.


As some of you may have seen on the Content + Company Instagram feed, we've been working with our clients on the #southstreetkitchenreno for the past 3 months, but believe it or not, this project has been a year in the making.
Let's back up to early 2017, when Mark and Marie contacted John to build them a custom dining room table.
During our very first meeting, with the then engaged-to-be-married couple, Mark and Marie showed us around their beautiful, c. 1910 home. Full of charm and character, the previous owners had only made minor upgrades to the house. That night, seated at a humble folding table, Mark and Marie shared with us their plans for upgrading the house, with hopes of entertaining friends and family. Mark was ready to cook and we were ready to help!
Even in full wedding planning mode, Mark and Marie were eager to discuss their priority, post-nuptial project - the Kitchen.
And now, exactly 1-year from that very first meeting, we are wrapping up a full kitchen renovation for this awesome, now, husband and wife.
The bones of this space were not too bad. Six, double-hung windows allow a ton of natural light into the room, and an addition put on by the previous owners (including the breakfast nook and mudroom), made the overall kitchen about 350 square feet. Plenty of room for improvement!
Curiously, during the construction of the breakfast nook addition, the previous contractor choose to add this dividing wall, likely as structural support, instead of adding a ceiling beam.
Though the addition may have been structurally sounds, the new wall presented mostly design "cons". It cut the space, visually, in-half, forced the refrigerator to open into the kitchen/dining room entry door and blocked all of that wonderful natural light. There was also a tremendous amount of unused space between the breakfast nook and the fridge wall.
Early on, we knew the wall had to go. Luckily, the removal of the wall created a great opportunity for us to add an exposed beam, not only for ascetics, but also for function.
During our first design meeting and throughout the initial design process, Marie shared a Pinterest board chock full of images that would continue to inspire this project.
Stylistically the couple both wanted a functional, fresh, bright and airy space but individually Mark leans more industrial while Marie craves warmth through natural wood. Marie also liked the idea of playing with a "pop-of-color" which I can't wait to share with you in the reveal.
Finalizing some details for the #southstreetkitchenreno. Wood grain porcelain tile, antiqued brass hardware + beautiful white quartz. Excuse me while I swoon!
Happy Monday! We're kicking off the week with demo at #southstreetkitchenreno 👷🏻♂👷🏻♀. Check out our Story for more of the down + dirty details.
That's it for now! You didn't think I was going to spill all the renovation beans, did you? Stay tuned for our big reveal of the South Street Kitchen, coming VERY soon!
OH, and if there are any progress projects you'd like to hear more about in a separate post, please comment below!
Kitchen Renovation (Phase 4) ... How Many Phases Are There?
Trimming the new basement windows.
Created a template for the stone fabricator to cut the master vanity counter top.
Cut and constructed our 10 closet drawers.
He's also making good on promises to help family and friends with their own projects. Oh, and doing odd jobs for Mrs. Lynch who he loves to work for. She's the best!
I'll admit it. I do take responsibility for dragging my feet on certain design decisions. Specifically, the kitchen sink. Which I shopped for, no joke, for 4 months. I repeatedly kicked myself for including a farm sink in our American Woodmark Cabinet design.
At the time, for me at least, a farm sink seemed so necessary. For the record, John could.have.cared.less.
As I was daydreaming of our, yet to be conceived, chubby child; adorably enjoying a bubble bath in our perfect farm sink, John was likely reminding me of the added expense, which I never heard on account of all the imaginary chapping and laughter.
Now 7 months later, a farm sink seems frivolous! $700, $800!? Forget our imaginary offspring, is 800 bucks really worth spending on a vessel to rinse our dirty dishes? "Rinse", we have a dishwasher for heaven's sake!
Worth it or not, we were stuck with the decision. So, in an effort to save face I researched sinks for weeks on end. The first reality is that our "standard" 30 inch base cabinet is not made to accept a "standard" 30 inch sink. Ha. That would have just been WAY too easy.
By the grace of the Internet, I was lead to a 26 inch Alfi fireclay farm sink on Amazon. I pulled the trigger and bought it, shipped direct to the house. I consider this a small miracle!
I further consider the fact that it arrived in one piece another miracle.
John stared this installation by measuring the area he needed to cut out of the base cabinet to make room for the apron front sink.
"Measure twice (three times if your wife is standing over your shoulder), cut once."
In this instance, John made a cardboard template because the farm sink has some natural irregularities that needed to be taken into account.
Side note, spending oodles of money on materials (in this case cabinets) and then having to cut into them is completely nerve wracking, and I'm not even the one doing the cutting!
The test fitting process went on a few more times as John worked to get the cut just right, sanding and taking off additional portions of the cabinet, until everything was snug.
The kitchen counter tops have also been a challenging decision for us. We thought long and hard about this, and finally resolved to have the counter tops match the oak slab island.
We originally wanted to do stone or concrete, but based on time, budget and purely in hopes of keeping the process moving, we decided on wood. Plus, the island looks gorgeous so we knew the counter top would look great too!
John started out by making a template of the counter top layout, taking in to account the sink and corner turn.
Though two large slabs could have been joined to create the necessary counter depth, John chose to join three boards as he felt he could achieve a tighter seam and better ascetic.
Perfecting the diagonal corner cut!
Here's a sneak peek! More to come on the finish product in the final reveal!
The most recent project John tackled was dry fitting the new Pfister Pasadena faucet which was selected specifically to match our Aurora GE slate grey appliances.
Though we still have plenty of work to do on the kitchen, luckily, some of those projects will be handled by other contractors specifically our painter and plumber. Aside from that though, we will be experimenting with a brick back splash behind the stove.
Stay tuned for more updated soon!


In an attempt to undercut Andrew McCabe's publicity tour, the President is on a tear, attacking what he claims was McCabe and Rod Rosenstein's "treasonous" insurance policy.
We're at a point where both sides are making claims of treason, which only serves to feed the intensity of both sides, without convincing Trump's supporters (and other denialists) that the concerns about Trump's loyalty — and therefore the investigation that McCabe opened into him — are well-grounded.
But there are neutral third party observers here, weighing the claims of loyalty. Four different sentencing processes have sided with those questioning the loyalty of Trump and those close to him.
In the first two cases where Trump flunkies have been sentenced, the flunkies themselves have pointed to how their own misplaced loyalties caused them to commit crimes. In George Papadopoulos' sentencing memo, he attributed the actions that led to his prosecution — his attempts to broker a meeting between Putin and Trump — to a desire to curry Trump's favor.
George's giddiness over Mr. Trump's recognition was prominent during the days that followed the March 31, 2016 meeting. He had a sense of unbridled loyalty to the candidate and his campaign and set about trying to organize the meeting with President Putin.
Papadopoulos says he lied to the FBI out of loyalty to Trump.
Mr. Papadopoulos misled investigators to save his professional aspirations and preserve a perhaps misguided loyalty to his master.
George explained that he was in discussions with senior Trump administration officials about a position and the last thing he wanted was "something like this" casting the administration in a bad light. The agents assured him that his cooperation would remain confidential.
More specifically, he lied to avoid tainting the Trump campaign with any tie to Russia.
George lied about material facts central to the investigation. To generalize, the FBI was looking into Russian contacts with members of the Trump campaign as part of its larger investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election. This issue had dominated the news for several months with stories concerning Carter Page and Paul Manafort. The agents placed this issue squarely on the table before George and he balked. In his hesitation, George lied, minimized, and omitted material facts. Out of loyalty to the new president and his desire to be part of the administration, he hoisted himself upon his own petard.
I have argued that this memo served the dual purpose of accepting responsibility while signaling others and reaffirming his loyalty to Trump, and I stand by that. Given his efforts to reverse his sentence, Papadopoulos show of contrition at his hearing was just that, a ruse. But it was one of the things that convinced Judge Randolph Moss to impose just two weeks. Another, however, were the comments of Papadopoulos' lawyer, Thomas Breen, who argued Trump had obstructed the Mueller investigation far more than his client had.
In imposing prison time, Moss emphasized that Papadopoulos lied about a manner of grave importance.
So Papadopoulos' lawyers agreed his loyalties were misplaced and Judge Moss judged that Papadopoulos' lies pertained to something that strikes at the integrity of our democracy.
As Papadopoulos did, Michael Cohen attributed his obstruction to his blind loyalty to Trump and a desire to sustain Trump's false narrative denying ties to Russia.
I made these misstatements to be consistent with Individual 1's political messaging and out of loyalty to Individual 1.
In his cynical, Lanny Davis-crafted statement at sentencing, Cohen talked about how he put loyalty to Trump over that to his family, ending with an apology to the US.
I blame myself for the conduct which has brought me here today, and it was my own weakness, and a blind loyalty to this man that led me to choose a path of darkness over light. It is for these reasons I chose to participate in the elicit act of the President rather than to listen to my own inner voice which should have warned me that the campaign finance violations that I later pled guilty to were insidious.
Recently, the President Tweeted a statement calling me weak, and he was correct, but for a much different reason than he was implying. It was because time and time again I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds rather than to listen to my own inner voice and my moral compass. My weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to Donald Trump, and I was weak for not having the strength to question and to refuse his demands.
I stand behind my statement that I made to George Stephanopoulos, that my wife, my daughter, my son have my first loyalty and always will. I put family and country first. My departure as a loyal soldier to the President bears a very hefty price.
For months now the President of the United States, one of the most powerful men in the world, publicly mocks me, calling me a rat and a liar, and insists that the Court sentence me to the absolute maximum time in prison. Not only is this improper; it creates a false sense that the President can weigh in on the outcome of judicial proceedings that implicate him.
I want to apologize to the people of the United States. You deserve to know the truth and lying to you was unjust.
In sentencing Cohen, Judge William Pauley pointed to how his ties to Trump and the access that gave him led him to lose his moral compass.
[H]is entire professional life apparently revolved around the Trump organization. He thrived on his access to wealthy and powerful people, and he became one himself.
But somewhere along the way Mr. Cohen appears to have lost his moral compass and sought instead to monetize his new-found influence. That trajectory, unfortunately, has led him to this courtroom today.
Cohen's guilty plea — particularly the way he tried to cabin off cooperation implicating his family — is cynical as hell. But to the extent he is willing to help prosecutors, it entails being treated as a traitor by the President.
The other two Trump flunkies who've gotten close to sentencing are even more striking — in part because they have been less successful at crafting a fiction about setting their loyalty to Trump or other paymasters aside.
Flynn was set to get probation until he and his lawyer used their own sentencing memo to continue the line all the other loyal Trump flunkies have, suggesting that the investigation was illegitimate.
While Emmet Sullivan — ever on guard against prosecutorial misconduct — might have done so anyway, this led the judge to ask for the paperwork behind Flynn's claims. Which in turn led to the production of really damning details of Flynn's lies. That, in turn, led Sullivan to hesitate before sentencing Flynn, in part because the "great deal of nonpublic information in this case" he read led him to grow disgusted about what Flynn had done. Sullivan, as the first judge to read in detail about Mueller's underlying investigation, said some absolutely remarkable things (and note, at least some of this language pertains to Flynn selling out to Turkey, not Russia).
It could be that any sentence of incarceration imposed after your further cooperation is completed would be for less time than a sentence may be today. I can't make any guarantees, but I'm not hiding my disgust, my disdain for this criminal offense.
So in this case, Flynn's bid to discredit the investigation instead led to remarkable comments about how Flynn's underlying crimes — the ones he lied to cover-up — amount to selling out his country.
Which brings us to Paul Manafort, who is currently facing what amount to be several life sentences because he refused to cooperate, even after promising to do so, against Trump and his Ukrainian and Russian paymasters. As I have noted, Manafort's lies served to avoid giving the government evidence that Trump conspired with Russia to get elected.
But don't take my word for it. In announcing her ruling in the breach determination last week, Amy Berman Jackson paid special attention to Manafort's lies about Konstantin Kilimnik. The most important lie, it seems, pertains to Manafort sharing of detailed polling data with Kilimnik at a meeting where they also discussed sanctions relief in the guise of a Ukrainian peace detail. The description of whom Manafort intended that data to be shared with is redacted. But ABJ moved directly from describing the intended recipients to judging that sharing the data amounts to a link with Russia.
Also, the evidence indicates that it was understood that [redacted] would be [redacted from Kilimnik [redacted] including [redacted], and [redacted]. Whether Kilimnik is tied to Russian intelligence or he's not, I think the specific representation by the Office of Special Counsel was that he had been, quote, assessed by the FBI, quote, to have a relationship with Russian intelligence, close quote. Whether that's true, I have not been provided with the evidence that I would need to decide, nor do I have to decide because it's outside the scope of this hearing. And whether it's true or not, one cannot quibble about the materiality of this meeting.
She continued by saying that she didn't even have to determine whether — as the government claims — Kilimnik has active ties to GRU. Whatever Kilimnik's ties to Russian military intelligence, ABJ still considers his relationship with Manafort to implicate coordination with the Russian government.
I also want to say we've now spent considerable time talking about multiple clusters of false or misleading or incomplete or needed-to-be-prodded-by-counsel statements, all of which center around the defendant's relationship or communications with Mr. Kilimnik. This is a topic at the undisputed core of the Office of Special Counsel's investigation into, as paragraph (b) of the appointment order put it, Any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign.
Mr. Kilimnik doesn't have to be in the government or even be an active spy to be a link. The fact that all of this is the case, that we have now been over Kilimnik, Kilimnik, and Kilimnik makes the defense argument that I should find the inaccurate statements to be unintentional because they're all so random and disconnected, which was an argument that was made in the hearing, is very unpersuasive.
Mr. Manafort doesn't just say to the agents, Kilimnik doesn't believe he was pressuring the witness, or Kilimnik didn't think he was suborning perjury, he didn't intend to violate U.S. law, he makes the affirmative assertion that Kilimnik believed the project was a European project, when Manafort plainly knew that Kilimnik knew it wasn't and the documents plainly reflect that it wasn't, and that was the basis for the conspiracy count to which he pled guilty in the first place.
To me, this is definitely an example of a situation in which the Office of Special Counsel legitimately concluded he's lying to minimize things here, he's not being forthcoming, this isn't what cooperation is supposed to be. This is a problematic attempt to shield his Russian conspirator from liability and it gives rise to legitimate questions about where his loyalties lie.
We have yet to get Mueller's sentencing memo in the DC case or ABJ's response to any claims they may make about why Manafort chose to face a life sentence rather than tell the truth about his conspiracies with Konstantin Kilimnik.
But it's pretty clear that ABJ believes Manafort's lies suggest he has suspect loyalties.
Four times so far in this investigation, Trump's aides have started the sentencing process for their crimes designed to obstruction Robert Mueller's investigation. All four times, before four different judges, their misplaced loyalty to Trump above country has come up. And with both Flynn and Manafort — where the judges have seen significant amounts of non-public information about the crimes they lied to cover-up — two very reasonable judges have raised explicit questions about whether Trump's aides had betrayed their country.
Trump wants this to be a case of contested claims of betrayal. But the judges who have reviewed the record have used striking language about who betrayed their country.
Some weeks ago, I used Leon Jaworski's Road Map to imagine what an equivalent Robert Mueller Road Map, packaging grand jury information to share with the House Judiciary Committee, might look like.
Among other things I showed the close parallel between John Dean's attempt to craft a cover story and Don McGahn's attempts to do the same. That section included how Nixon worked Henry Petersen, then Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Division, to try to influence the investigation.
Another section showed how Nixon was commenting on what he had said to Petersen and Attorney General Kleindienst was like Trump's comments on Jim Comey and other DOJ officials.
That was all written from the outside.
Today, former FBI General Counsel James Baker performs the same task. He doesn't describe the effort as such. Rather, he just says he finds certain things — particularly those having to do with Henry Petersen — attracted his (and Sarah Grant's, with whom he wrote this) attention.
One of the aspects of the recently released Watergate "road map" and related documents that attracted our attention is the set of materials pertaining to interactions, direct and indirect, between President Richard M. Nixon and two senior Department of Justice officials.
The whole post starts with a description of how Petersen told Nixon that Haldeman and Ehrlichman were implicated in the break-in and advised him to fire them, only to have the President respond that he would not.
The parallel here, of course, is Mike Flynn, whom Sally Yates recommended Trump fire, but whom Trump kept on for almost two weeks because he had ordered him to engage in the suspect behavior in question.
The post goes on to describe how Nixon got that top DOJ figure to provide information on a DOJ investigation investigating him personally.
According to the president's logs, between March 13, 1973, and April 30, 1973, President Nixon had seven meetings and initiated 19 phone calls with Petersen. These calls included four on April 15, 1973, after Kleindienst and Petersen met with the president to recommend that he fire Haldeman and Ehrlichman, including one call from 11:45 p.m. to 11:53 p.m. It is difficult to recount concisely the details of all of these communications to the extent that they are reflected in the information that we reviewed. Suffice it to say that these communications and other information in the attachments to the road map indicate that the Justice Department provided the White House with certain information about the course of the investigation on an ongoing basis.
The president, in short, was using a senior Justice Department official to gather intelligence about an ongoing criminal investigation in which he was personally implicated.
The post also explains how Nixon tried to influence Petersen to speed up the investigation and by offering promotions.
It lays out how Nixon asked the top DOJ official whether he, personally, was under investigation.
Similarly, the Watergate Task Force report referenced above states that on April 27, 1973, "the President asked Petersen if he had any information implicating the President himself. Petersen said he did not." The president, in other words, was asking the head of the Criminal Division whether he was personally under investigation.
And then it shows how HJC included such abuses in its articles of impeachment.
In disregard of the rule of law, . . . knowingly misused the executive power by interfering with agencies of the executive branch, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Criminal Division, and the Office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, of the Department of Justice, and the Central Intelligence Agency, in violation of his duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
President Nixon resigned on Aug. 9, 1974, and was pardoned by President Gerald Ford on Sept. 8, 1974.
As I noted in the post where I drew these parallels, we're not in 1974 anymore, and there are a lot of reasons to doubt Trump will be impeached for acting in a similar manner as Nixon did.
But James Baker definitely seems to think the parallels are there.
Between setting the first status hearing in Paul Manafort's case as November 16, and setting the Mike Flynn sentencing for no earlier than November 28 (with the reports submitted on November 14), Mueller's office seems to be suggesting they'll wait until after election day to roll out the case they just added Trump's Campaign Manager's testimony to.
Not long after the release of the Flynn status hearing, Trump ordered the release of yet more stuff on the Steele dossier (the stuff in the first paragraph), plus unredacted texts on what the investigation looked like before August 1, 2017.
Depending on how much the various parties put into these texts (I doubt Comey was much of a texter, for example), this will show unbelievable detail on how FBI runs counterintelligence investigations.
But it will also show voters what the investigation looked like before some key evidence came in, such as the communications surrounding the June 9 meeting and whatever the FBI seized from Paul Manafort's home. Andrew McCabe was the last person in a key role on this investigation, and Christopher Wray took over that role on August 1.
It's a desperate gambit, I think, throwing the last of the Steele dossier details out there, plus a picture of what the investigation looked like before the FBI learned that the President's son entered into a conspiracy with Russians exchanging Hillary emails for sanction relief.
Which I take as yet more confirmation that that conspiracy — and whatever Manafort just gave the government — would (will, eventually) utterly damn the President.


With three of the world's know atolls, yacht chartering in Belize offers great coral reef snorkeling and diving, with the most notable dive location being the "Blue Hole". Made famous by Jacques Cousteau, the Blue Hole is no less extraordinary then when Cousteau and his crew explored the depths, and declared this spot one of the "10 Best Scuba Diving Locations in the World" in 1971. This large underwater sinkhole was formed when the roof of an underwater cavern collapsed leaving a circular opening, just under the surface of the ocean over 980′ in diameter. Located in Lighthouse Reef, the Blue Hole is part of the larger Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, which is a declared UNESCO World Heritage Site and well worth visiting while on a yacht charter in Belize.
Most yacht charter starts in the mainland, and in the Yucatan area of Central America and are called Cenotes. The Blue Hole is believed to be the largest discovered Cenote of its kind under water.
Lighthouse Reef should be included in any yacht charter itinerary of Belize and is a unique scuba diving location. Within the crystal clear waters of the Blue Hole, a scuba diver can hope to see many different types of tropical fish, including giant groupers and nurse and reef sharks. And in the surrounding area are a number of locations to dive along the reef. In shallow waters covering parts of the reef is great snorkeling. Lighthouse Reef is also well known, for a collection of shipwrecks that have happened over the centuries along the far eastern side of the reef, some of which are still visible above the waterline. It is certainly easy to spend several days out in the Lighthouse Reef area visiting exploring both the Blue Hole and other areas of this atoll.


After I woke up and ate breakfast, I put on my bathing suit and coverup. Mommy and Daddy took me out to the beach again! I had fun, but didn't like it as much as Friday night.
The water was still to cold to get in.
So Daddy and I went swimming in the pool.
I loved my float that they bought me!
Then Mommy got in and swam with me some.
After swimming in the big pool, I went to the kiddie pool.
Come on Mommy put me back in the water!
My float was even better here, because I could touch the bottom and walk around!
I walked from one side of the pool to the other.
Don't I look good in this thing!
One more day left...check back tomorrow for my last pictures from the beach!
I had my 9 month checkup today!!!
Cooper seems to be feeling a little better!
I made a BIG MESS!!!
I can't help it...I am just so cute!!!
I got a High Chair!
Guess who stopped by to see me yesterday?


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Roosevelt Rides Again!
Submitted by Dr. Joseph Hecht on Tue, 03/04/2014 - 12:51pm
CSN's Patrick Mooney broke the news that Theodore Roosevelt Lilly III is back with the Cubs. No, the 38 year old crafty one, who retired last November isn't being brought back from the netherworld to be another soft tossing lefty to flip at the trade deadline. He's there in a new capacity, per Rotoworld:
Ted Lilly has been hired as a special assistant for the Cubs front office. He will work with young players in Cubs camp during spring training and then help the organization with scouting for the draft.
Then there is this quote from TL upon making the decision to take the Cubs gig:
Ted Lilly: "I want to be around the game and I feel like I have something to offer. This is the organization I would prefer to be with."
A little more from Gulliver and the Voyage to Lilliput after the jump...
Lilly Declining? Wallach Decent? Looking at the Deal
Submitted by Cubnut on Sun, 08/01/2010 - 12:37am
Now that the trade deadline is behind us, what are Cub fans supposed to pay attention to? The games?! I tried that earlier tonight, and I'm sorry I did.
— I heard a recorded interview with Derrek Lee on WGN Radio early this evening in the run-up to the Cubs/Rockies game. David Kaplan asked Lee about Ryan Theriot, and Lee described him as "a grinder." In that moment, I came up with my own definition of a grinder. It's a guy who plays hard enough to occasionally make you forget that he's not very good.
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Good Times with Ted
Submitted by Cubnut on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 3:35pm
By all accounts, Ted Lilly will be an ex-Cub by Saturday's trading deadline, in which case tonight's start at Houston will be his last for the team. Signed in December, 2006 after finalizing a deal with Cubs GM Jim Hendry moments before Hendry underwent an angioplasty, Lilly will go down as one of the GM's savvier acquisitions.
On Z's Return, Lilly's Exit, and Girardi's No-Comment
Submitted by Cubnut on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 8:11am
— A season-high crowd of nearly 13,000—more than 5,000 above than the I-Cubs' average—was on hand for Carlos Zambrano's rehab appearance last night in Des Moines.
Zambrano threw a bumpy but scoreless inning in which he got 10 of 15 pitches over the plate, but allowed two singles and was saved from a third hit by Sam Fuld's catch against the center-field wall. (See Mike Wellman's full account here.)
Current plans are for Zambrano to pitch in Round Rock over the weekend and then in Albuquerque on Tuesday before rejoining the big club in Colorado.
Joe Girardi
"Lilly Watch 2010," plus Joey Hates Us; He Really, Really Hates Us!
Submitted by Cubnut on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 11:33pm
Phillies (47-41) @ Cubs (40-50)
Phillies lineup v. Ted Lilly (3-8, 4.08; 1-4, 6.43 all-time v. Phillies)
Rollins 6, Victorino 8, Werth 9, Howard 3, Francisco 7, Ransom 5, Ruiz 2, Valdez 4, Blanton 1
Cubs lineup v. Joe Blanton (3-5, 6.41; 0-0, 2.75 all-time v. Cubs)
Theriot 4, Colvin 9, Lee 3, Ramirez 5, Byrd 8, Soriano 7, Castro 6, Soto 2, Lilly 1
— According to Bruce Levine, Carlos Zambrano had a 25-pitch throwing session in Mesa, following the completion of his anger-management counseling. Zambrano and the Cubs are supposed to decide next week where Zambrano will be headed for his rehab stint.
— Paul Sullivan wrote that Jim Hendry and Ted Lilly got together before last night's game to discuss Lilly's future. Lilly, who will start this afternoon's game against the Phillies' Joe Blanton, was awful in his last two starts before the break, against the Reds and Dodgers—5 homers, 18 hits and 14 ER allowed in just 10 1/3 innings.
Marlon Byrd
Ol' Times with Ronny Cedeno / Game #78 Preview
Submitted by Cubnut on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 10:44am
I watched the game intermittently last night, and one of my tune-ins happened in the top of the 7th. The Cubs were leading 3-1 but Pedro Alvarez had connected for a one-out single and then Ryan Doumit ripped a 3-1 pitch into the leftfield corner for a double that moved Alvarez to third. The visitors had the tying runs on base with just one out and roughly 100 pitches into the evening, Ted Lilly looked like he might be out of gas. Len Kasper surmised that this was probably the game's defining moment.
Then Ronny Cedeno stepped into the batter's box.
Former Cubs Players
Game #63 recap: Cubs 1, White Sox 0, Lilly Almost
Submitted by Cubnut on Sun, 06/13/2010 - 9:49pm
Addendum: In cycling through Cub no-hit history, ESPN's Jon Miller mentioned that the Cubs have not been on the short end of a no-hitter since Sandy Koufax tossed a perfect game against the Cubs back in 1965. That was the game that saw Cub loser Bob Hendley allow the Dodgers just one hit. Joe Morgan intoned that he heard the ninth inning of that game on the radio as he and his Houston Astro teammates drove into the city from the L.A. airport; they were scheduled to play the Dodgers the next night. Morgan said he specifically remembered Koufax striking out Ernie Banks in the 9th to preserve the perfect game. Would it surprise you to know that Morgan was wrong? Nope. Didn't surprise me either.
The Cubs held on to beat the White Sox, 1-0, Sunday night at Wrigley Field. The game saw Ted Lilly and Gavin Floyd locked up in a double no-hit duel until Alfonso Soriano collected the game's first hit, a double inside the leftfield line with two out in the Cubs seventh. Chad Tracy then followed with a sharp ground-ball single that plated Soriano with the game's only run.
Chad Tracy
Alfonso Soriano


The pipeline industry as we know it today began around 1900 when Teamsters began charging too much to transport barrels of crude by wagon, the oil industry rebelled and the pipeline industry was born. Railroads got into the act by not allowing pipelines to cross their tracks when they lost revenues due to these alternative methods of transport. The issues were resolved by economic necessity and all parties learned to prosper by working together. With the oil pipelines emerging to transport the crude to new markets and refineries prior to 1920, the war time needs had dictated even more miles of pipeline as more boom areas sprouted across the Southwest U. S.
Probably the urgency of the World War I effort and the post war prosperity of the 1920's gave birth to the right of way profession. Those early right of way contracts are like masterpieces of contractual law and favored the pipeline companies. Many of these agreements were written in perpetuity as far as time and space is not delineated at all. Basically, many of these agreements are in force forever and cover an entire lease even if it contains thousands of acres. One contract in written for Humble Oil and Refining Company in 1928 states that any pipeline can be laid anywhere in the leagues of land owned in Brazoria County, Texas by a particularly large landowner.
The best right of way agent knows how to build rapport and listen to the needs of the people he is interviewing. The impressions made at the initial meetings set the tone for most future relationships. He should be a skilled negotiator and analytical in his approach while being cognizant of the desires of the landowner whose property he needs to access. He is well educated in his profession.
There is not a landowner on the planet that would opt to have a pipeline easement traversing his property. From that perspective is where the right of way agent begins his process of negotiation. He must build a partnership that will endure and be able to compensate with words and deeds. He must be able to back up and keep his promises.
Today's right of way agents operate by different standards due to education, and the sophistication of landowners, ethics guidelines and voluntary associations such as the International Right of Way Association and it's extensive education and certification program.
The courses offered are designed to educate the practitioner and prospective right of way agent to be more attentive to landowner needs as well as the needs of the pipeline company. The educated, qualified and certified agent in today's profession brings the two sides together as economic circumstances brought the railroads and pipeline companies together one hundred years ago. The right of way agent of today should be especially well prepared, open minded and candid. He must be equipped to look and plan ahead for the good of his employer and the landowner. The two should have the same concerns. He should be a skilled negotiator. The outcome should be a win win outcome.
Christopher Morgan is president of CM Solutions of Bryan, Texas and a member of the International Right of Way Association. He is a veteran of many projects in acquiring right of way and provides this perspective.
Below I've outlined a project I worked in Robertson County, Texas to acquire 3 miles of right of way for an 8" natural gas line.
On this particular project I was afforded the opportunity to be involved in the planning and selection of the pipeline route. I was able to collaborate and give my input to the engineers, construction managers, and surveyors. Of course the ideal pipeline route would be a straight line from point A to point B, with no bores, no trees, and no landowners; the reality is all these things and more had to be considered. After collaboration we proposed to follow an existing electric line and PI twice to follow fence lines to our tie-in point. Although the footage and intersections increased we eliminated two long creek bores. Also, by following fence lines and an existing right of way, we proposed the least impact on the landowners, a very good negotiation tool.
With a route on paper, I went to the county appraisal district to research ownership and prepare a preliminary line list. Some appraisal districts make this way too easy with updated ownership and aerial photography, while others make it way too hard with no maps at all. Robertson County had good maps that allowed me to easily transcribe the proposed route, identify the affected landowners, and gather names, addresses, and phone numbers for each.
Gaining access for along our proposed route for survey was my next step. Calling for survey permission is very important because this is usually first introduction with the landowner. When calling the landowners, I simply introduced myself, told them we were looking at the feasibility of a pipeline in the area, and asked permission for our surveyors to be on their property. I tried to keep the details of the project at a minimum with a goal to acquire the basic information to get safely on the properties, and leave the landowners comfortable with what we were doing.
Getting surveyors out to stake the route and see the lay of the land helped us to confirm that the route was a good one, but also allowed us to start putting together some alternative options. In preparing for negotiation and acquisition I wanted to have a plan B at various stages of the route. During negotiation, the option to get on the opposite side of a fence and avoid a particular landowner could be very beneficial.
Next was the important task of confirming ownership of each tract by running the deed records at the County Clerk's office. This project offered a little bit of everything as far as ownership goes; community property, family trusts, undivided interests, etc. Sometimes this stage seems to be the biggest delay in getting the pipe in the ground, but identifying 100% of the ownership interests upfront, saves headaches down the road. After several days of searching the records, the ownership finally came together, with only a couple of tracts having multiple ownership interests.
After confirming the ownership along the route, my next step was to get in front of the landowners. Although I had a brief conversation with the landowners during survey permission, this was the first time I let them know we were seeking to lay the pipeline on their property specifically. Setting up appointments I found that most of the landowners were open to at least talking with me about the project, which is always a good sign. The fact that we had chosen a route that was the least intrusive on each property helped move negotiations along. Of course the real issue at hand was money. Negotiations in small rural communities such as this one can be tough, as everyone hears exactly what others have been offered, or an exaggeration of what they've been offered. Talks with the landowners went for the most part smoothly, and I was able to keep the acquisitions under $100 per rod. There was only one landowner who held out for more, but eventually he came around and all the needed right of way had been bought.
I was relieved after the right of way had been acquired, but at this point it was very important to make sure the things agreed upon would be followed through. Not only because of ramifications for not adhering to the contractual agreements, but I did not want any of my promises to the landowners forgotten or broken. I performed my due diligence and noted all restrictions and agreements made with each landowner, then presented this in a release for construction to begin. My final steps on this project were to make frequent visits to the construction sites and frequent follow-ups with the landowners, assuring and keeping them up to date of progress.
No two acquisitions are ever the same, but this particular project encountered many of the typical scenarios one would expect to see. Although the same process is usually followed, the details will vary; and it is important to have an experienced and educated right of way professional to minimize the speed bumps. From planning to construction a good right of way agent will add helpful insight, input, and unmistakable value to any project.
The value of good work on the acquisition phase in critical. When the construction phase ends and throughput begins, there are continued maintenance and repairs to contend with. At each juncture there is another contact with the landowner. Better relationship from the beginning foster better and time and money savings over the fifty years life of the pipeline.
The industry is changing. More and more landowners are not satisfied in allowing abandoned, uneconomic, and out of use pipelines to sit on their properties unattended. On one hand, pipeline companies are not wanting to remove the lines as they might need the right of way in the future or they perceive environmental problems if the old lines are disturbed. In other cases, abandoned lines are sold and recovered to reuse the steel or the pipe itself. These same landowners are becoming more sophisticated and answers to their queries about the old lines and old contracts are just a google away. We continue to hear of coming legislation and regulation to make abandoning pipelines in place much more difficult.


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The Kannapolis Intimidators (Low A; Sally League) are seeking a new name to take effect with the 2020 season, coinciding with the debut of a new downtown Kannapolis ballpark. The process began Wednesday, with the team issuing a call to fans to suggest new names.
In addition to a new name, the rebrand will include a new logo and mascot. The new identity will debut after the 2019 season ends.
For 25 years, Kannapolis baseball fans have cheered on their hometown team as the Phillies, Boll Weevils and Intimidators. Kannapolis baseball looks to enter a new era with a new name and a new ballpark in a new downtown Kannapolis. The new Kannapolis Sports and Entertainment Venue is scheduled to open in April of 2020. The team will proudly carry the city's name in its title when it moves into the SEV.
Fans can submit their nominations for the team's new name, along with an explanation of how and why it embodies Kannapolis professional baseball, by going to www.kannapolisballpark.com. The team will accept submissions from Wednesday, February 6 through Wednesday, February 13. Suggested names and feedback will be considered by the team as they work with award-winning brand identity firm Studio Simon to select a new name.


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•	Original Regina Pizzeria (11 ½ Thacher St., Boston): Veer off Hanover and look for the neon sign for Regina Pizzeria, the original location for Greater Boston's most popular place to get a pie. Pitchers of beer pair with brick-oven pizzas that range from the unpretentious to the gourmet, like chicken pesto and spinach prosciutto. Save room for sweet treats at one of many nearby bakeries.
•	Giacomo's (355 Hanover St., Boston): Think of it as your way to pass time in the cannoli line across the street at Mike's Pastry. This cash-only venue offers delicious Italian classics at affordable prices. While the line for a table might get long, it usually moves fast. Seafood pastas are popular, and house specials for two come with a bottle of wine and provide a scrumptious date night that won't break the bank!
•	Bricco/Bricco Panetteria (241 Hanover St., Boston): While Bricco may be one of the North End's more popular dining rooms (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were once guests!), it is equally one of its most authentic Italian venues. From the zucchini flowers stuffed with truffled ricotta cheese at the beginning of a meal to the decadent tiramisu at the end, Bricco will regale your stomach. Be sure to check out Bricco Panetteria behind the restaurant for carbs to take home or to your hotel room. The prosciutto and parmesan ciabatta is our favorite midnight snack!
•	Neptune Oyster (63 Salem St., Boston): Crowds arrive early for Neptune Oyster, and for good reason! Neptune's raw bar and lobster rolls are seen as the best of the city, so try to plan a trip for lunch to have a shot at finding a space in the North End's premiere seafood venue.
•	Modern Pastry (257 Hanover St., Boston): The cannoli wars between Modern Pastry and Mike's Pastry (located just a few blocks down Hanover) are legendary, but we'll give it to Modern this winter. The bakery fills your customized cannoli shells on the spot, and you can take them downstairs to an often-overlooked bar to enjoy a libation with your sweet treat.


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Libertarian Leanings is a column by by Peter Burrows, who blogs at silvercityburro.com and can be reached at elburropete@gmail.com.
It does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Grant County Beat.
Why do Democrats steal elections?
Category: Libertarian Leanings
By Peter Burrows 12/18/20 elburropete@gmail.com silvercityburro.com
I know some of you are thinking, "C'mon Burro, Republicans steal elections, too." That may be true, but it seems to be relatively rare. I have three books about Democrats stealing elections,* and if you can show me ONE book about Republicans stealing elections, I'll buy you a Don Juan Burrito.
In fact, stealing elections is built into the Democrats' DNA. You want proof? Just ask a Democrat if we should require a national photo-ID to vote, such as they have in Mexico: "HORRORS!! What a voter-suppression RACIST idea! Besides, there's no proof of voter fraud -- NONE! NONE! -- you dirty-bastard racist Republican."
To paraphrase Shakespeare, "Methinks they doth protest too much," although some of them actually believe that nonsense. Actually, photo-IDs wouldn't do much to prevent the new ways elections are stolen, which involves falsifying mail-in ballots, corrupting voting machine software, harvesting ballots, and voting by non-citizens, to name a few biggies.
All of which requires a good-sized organization of like-minded people, especially where more than one polling place is involved, e.g., Cook County in Illinois, Wayne County in Michigan, and Milwaukee County in Wisconsin. Sound familiar? As Hillary Clinton might say, stealing an election requires a village, so to speak.
Furthermore, if the collusion involves numerous states, it becomes an effort to overthrow a "duly elected" national government, which is an act of treason. Democrats, of course, don't see it that way. In fact, they'll tell you they're being patriotic because putting Democrats in office is obviously the best thing for America because, as everybody knows, Republicans are evil.
This explains why Democrats cooperate to steal elections: they share the same twisted ideology. They all believe Republicans are racist, fascist, sexist morons who cling to their Bibles and their guns. Republicans will put blacks back into chains and force women to have babies. Republicans don't care about science, people, or social justice. In a word, Republicans don't CARE!!
This makes them bad people, a conviction far too many Democrats hold with an invincible moral certitude. That's why people who wouldn't think of cheating on the golf course or stealing a candy bar have no compunction about stealing elections from Republicans: It's the morally correct, right thing to do. The end justifies the means, baby.
Liberals have always thought they were morally and intellectually superior people. This is in spite of the fact that they have NO evidence to support their high opinion of themselves, and that there is OVERWHELMING evidence that the typical liberal is a self-righteous, ignorant hypocrite, far more concerned with moral grandstanding than actually doing anything good.
Now, however, moral grandstanding has been replaced by moral crusading, and crusaders burn people at the stake. The Social Justice Warriors, SJW, have taken over the Democrat Party, and the 'justice' they want most of all is to punish those evil-dirty-bastard Republicans who voted for that racist-Nazi Trump. While they're at it, they'll bring justice to those damned climate deniers, Islamophobes and transphobes, too.
It wasn't always this way. Stealing elections used to be more about money and ego. Back in 1960, when JFK's win over Nixon was highly questionable, nobody was hyperventilating about Armageddon if the other side won. Back then there wasn't that much difference in the two candidates. JFK cut taxes like a good Republican, and Nixon, when he was president, sounded like a good Democrat when he declared, "We're all Keynesians now."
Today, the nation cannot survive such electoral treason. The partisan divisions are too stark. Can you imagine Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi making like Ronald Reagan and Speaker Tip O'Neill; kicking back with a bottle of bourbon, swapping Irish jokes and ironing out disagreements? Ha! Bipartisanship is dead.
Soon, the two-party system could be dead, too. The Democrats learned from their mistakes in the 2016 presidential election, and they will learn from the 2020 election that they have to steal more than just the top of the ticket. We'll see how well they learned that lesson in the 2022 elections. If those elections give the Democrats control of Congress, expect the Democrats to try to do the following, which is only a partial SJW wish list:
-eliminate the anachronistic Electoral College;
-politicize/neutralize/pack the Supreme Court;
-confiscate guns;
-lower the voting age to 16;
-open our borders;
-statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico.
America will then become a one-party state. Fortunately, that party, the Democrat Party, has enough divisions that the country should avoid becoming a dictatorship. However, history is replete with examples of militant minorities gaining control of political movements. In fact, SJW militants aren't a minority, but a MAJORITY in many places, e.g., Portland, OR, where the top two contenders for Mayor, the incumbent and an even more radical opponent, received 86 percent of the vote.
Also, the Congressional elections saw AOC and three SJW Muslims (MUSLIMS!) reelected, all with comfortable majorities: AOC 72%, Illan Omar 65%, Rashida Tlaib 80%, and Andre Carson, the underachiever of the group, with 'only' 60%.
If Biden is actually sworn in as president, the 'tell' will be to what extent the SJW succeed in persecuting their political and ideological enemies. Lenin persecuted the kulaks; Hitler the Jews, Pol Pot the urbanites, to name a few earlier Social Justice Warriors. Are Trump supporters going to have their homes burned to the ground? Are fossil fuel executives going to prison?
You don't think that sort of thing can happen? Sadly, history has proven Voltaire correct: "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." If this sort of "justice" is allowed free rein, it will prove that government of, by, and for the people, could not long endure.
* If It's Not Close They Can't Cheat by Hugh Hewitt, 2004
Stealing Elections by John Fund, 2008
Who's Counting? By John Fund and Hans Von Spakovsky, 2012
Conjectures on stolen elections
By Peter Burrows elburropete@gmail.com 12/6/20
I hate to date myself, but I first voted in a presidential election back in 1960. In that election, Kennedy defeated Nixon, thanks in part to Chicago's Mayor Daley, who waited to see how many votes JFK needed from Cook County to carry the state. Cook County went for Kennedy by a massive 450,000 votes, giving Kennedy the state by only 9,000 votes.
It turned out that Kennedy might have won even without Illinois. However, also throw out Texas and Nixon would have won. Kennedy won Texas with 50.52 percent of the vote, and by only 46,000 votes, "pocket change," so to speak, for his running mate, Lyndon Johnson, who knew a thing or two about stealing elections in Texas.
Covid virus "tests" vs. "cases"
By Peter Burrows 11/30/20
elburropete@gmail.com - silvercityburro.com -
Note to readers: The following is a summary of an article at https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/the_covid_case_con_continues.html
The COVID Case Con Continues By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. 11/30/20
As many Americans recover from their "virtual Thanksgiving," the media is pushing the narrative that COVID cases are once again surging. The Washington Post claims that cases are "skyrocketing" while the New York Times wails that "It has hit us with a vengeance." Yet the media is oblivious, either ignorantly or deliberately, to the reality that positive tests are not the same thing as cases.
Summarized Covid article from Peter Burrows
Summarized Covid article from Peter Burrows elburropete@gmail.com 11/26/20
A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy 10/9/20 By Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. The following is from an article featured in the October 2020 edition of Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College. The article was adapted from an October 9, 2020, panel presentation in Omaha, Nebraska. It has been edited for brevity with key points emphasized by Peter Burrows.
My goal today is, first, to present the facts about how deadly COVID-19 actually is; second, to present the facts about who is at risk from COVID; third, to present some facts about how deadly the widespread lockdowns have been; and fourth, to recommend a shift in public policy.
1. The COVID-19 Fatality Rate - In discussing the deadliness of COVID, we need to distinguish COVID cases from COVID infections. In early March, the case fatality rate in the U.S. was roughly three percent—nearly three out of every hundred people who were identified as "cases" of COVID in early March died from it. Today, the fatality rate is less than one half of one percent. --when the World Health Organization said in early March that three percent of people who get COVID die from it, they were wrong --. The COVID fatality rate is much closer to 0.2 or 0.3 percent. The reason for the highly inaccurate early estimates is simple: in early March, we were not identifying most of the people who had been infected by COVID.
Islam and Judaism: A Tragic Irony
Islam and Judaism: A tragic Irony by Peter Burrows elburropete@gmail.com – 11/14/20
Muslims believe the Koran is the literal word of God, and in the Koran God commands Muslims to hate just about everybody, especially Jews. There are a number of verses, a.k.a., revelations, that make this hatred of Jews VERY clear. Two verses even say that Allah turned Jews into apes and pigs when they broke their sabbath. (2:65 and 5:60)
Muslims believe this is the literal truth, that it actually happened and could happen again. Therefore, if you're Jewish you'd better get your affairs in order. Any second now you could be rooting around out in the garbage or swinging around town on utility poles.
Islam for nerds
Islam for nerds, 11/5/20:
https://silvercityburro.com/2020/11/05/so-you-want-to-learn-about-islam/(opens in a new tab)
https://silvercityburro.com/2020/10/26/how-to-read-the-koran-and-understand-islam/(opens in a new tab)
China's Muslims: A different perspective
By Peter Burrows 10/2/20 - elburropete@gmail.com - silvercityburro.com
The Grant County Beat has recently run a number of articles, "Education About China," that have focused on China's persecution of its Muslim minorities. Unsurprisingly, the Muslims are portrayed as victims while the Chinese government is accused of implementing "a system that allows evil to thrive and harm the Chinese people."
The irony is that Islam is at least as evil as Communism, although communism has less than 200 years of proof vs over1,400 for Islam. If forced to choose between the two, I think I'd take communism. You can reason with communists, but not with people who think they are obeying God.
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By Peter Burrows elburropete@gmail.com - silvercityburro.com 8/10/20
With Silver City's new ordinance mandating facemasks, many concerned citizens are worried that the local police force will not be able to handle the increased responsibilities. In addition, some are concerned that facemasks alone may not be enough.
"The facemask law is a good start, but people should also be required to carry yardsticks. Social distancing is just as important," declared George Julien. "Hell, three feet may not be enough," he added.
Julien was one of three senior citizens interviewed yesterday while they were having lunch at a picnic table at the El Viejo burrito stand on Broadway and Hwy. 90.
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Joy is such a hard thing to come by and when I say that, I don't mean using any kind of chemical to obtain it. I am talking about pure and genuine joy. Whether it is just a feeling of being truly content with yourself or spending time with someone that makes you laugh or just makes you feel better about yourself or life. Joy is such a rare and precious thing, so when you experience it, savour it and if at all possible, hang onto the person who is sharing it with you with all your might.
Joy is wonderful. I find my bliss when I realize I've been writing for hours and it seems like minutes. I find it with my kids on Saturday as we visit around coffee.
Jai - I can relate to both topics that give you joy, as I love spending time with my family as well. I just feel so loved and appreciated afterwards.
Joy, for me, usually comes from those money-can't-buy moments. Being with family, having a laugh, walking in the sunshine (or even the rain). And, like Jai says, when the words are flowing and you have no need to stop them!
Annalisa - Thank you. I agree with you, that the best times come from moments that money cannot buy. Spending time with my family is always a highlight of mine.


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APC Hands Oni Committee 7 Days To investigate Disagreement In Kaduna State Chapter
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has given a committee headed by Engineer Segun Oni just seven days to investigate the immediate and remote causes of crisis rocking the party in Kaduna State.
This was made known in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi.
According to the statement, the decision was taken after its executive session which was held on Wednesday.
"The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has decided as follows:
"That the unfolding situation in Kaduna State is deeply regrettable and request all parties in the disagreement to maintain utmost decorum and give opportunity for true reconciliation.
"Consequently, the NWC has set up a three-man committee led by the Deputy National Chairman (South), Engr. Segun Oni to embark on a fact-finding mission to Kaduna State with a view to identifying the remote and immediate causes of the disagreement and the circumstance that led to the demolition of the house of Senator Hunkuyi," it stated.
It informed that the committee is to report back to the NWC within a week.
Other members of the Committee are the National Auditor, Chief George Moghalu and National Woman Leader, Hajia Rahmatu Alliyu.
In respect of Kogi State, the NWC reaffirmed that that Alhaji Haddy Ametuo remains the Chairman of the APC in the state until the appropriate organ of the party decides otherwise in accordance with the party's constitution.
The meeting of the NWC with lasted for about seven hours was led by the National Chairman of the Party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and was attended by majority of the NWC members.
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Mumbai: Titan Company on Wednesday said that its jewellery division recorded a 15 per cent growth in the third quarter of FY 2020-21.
In a regulatory filing, the company said that the jewellery industry saw a resurgence in the festive season along with a pent-up demand for wedding jewellery as most of the weddings in first half of FY21 were deferred.
"The jewellery division has crossed the recovery phase to growth phase and other two large divisions have also moved much closer to the full recovery," it said.
"Fortunately, the growth trend was visible even after the festive season ended and the division has recorded close to 15 per cent growth (excluding sale of raw gold of Rs 334 cr) in Q3."
The quarter also witnessed a well-rounded recovery with improvement in walk-ins and pick up of sale in metros, sub 1-lakh category and studded segment. The studded mix in Q3 improved, though still lower than levels seen in the previous year, the filing added.
The division continued to see a significantly higher share of gold coin sales and very good growth in wedding jewellery sales. Ticket size continues to be higher due to higher gold rates and higher share of wedding related products but 100 per cent recovery in buyers is yet to be seen.
On the watches and wearables division, the company said that the segment had a recovery rate of around 88 per cent in Q3, compared to the revenue of the same quarter in last year.
"The e-commerce channel is leading the recovery with very strong absolute growth of over 30 per cent," it said.
The bull run!
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Here we have two little manga-style angels: one likes Christmas, and the other doesn't. Either way, they both have to get dressed up for the holidays, which they both like! And you get to help them pick their outfits!


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2016 Ford C-Max Introduction
The Ford C-Max is a compact hatchback hybrid, like the Prius liftback or Prius V wagon. The C-Max is built on the Focus platform, and is in the fourth year of its first generation. The only changes for 2016 are new colors and the new Sync 3 voice command replacing the problematic Sync with MyFord Touch.
The base hybrid makes an excellent 195 combined horsepower using a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with two electric motors. The plug-in C-Max Energi model uses a 7.6 kilowatt-hour battery, compared to the 1.4 kWh in the standard hybrid, which gives it an all-electric driving range of 19 miles at slow speeds.
The Ford C-Max Hybrid is EPA-rated at 42/37 mpg City/Highway, while the C-Max Energi is rated 38 mpg Combined city and highway, using the 19 miles of electric. The 2015 Prius is rated 51/48 mpg.
The C-Max is less stressed and noisy than the 2015 Prius. An all-new Toyota Prius is being introduced for 2016.
Underway, the Ford C-Max does not feel tight and lithe like the Focus does. The C-Max is heavier, by 650 pounds, and its suspension is less compliant.
The C-Max earns a Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), and four stars from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for frontal crash and roof strength, and five stars for side impact. Rearview camera and seven airbags are standard.


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When I asked him how much of the mix wind power might make up in 2050, he remarked "all of it". That's not the officially announced strategy, but it's an interesting answer -- biomass could be a near-term solution for the nation, and it could indeed plan on moving towards being primarily powered by wind.
But wind doesn't blow all the time, quoth the critic, so how could a country even consider relying on it for baseload power? Well, in Denmark's case, it has a shared transmission system set up with Germany and Sweden, which allows it to export power when the wind blows beyond the nation's demand, and to import it when the gales are lacking. Denmark has also embarked on an ambitious smart grid project that will better direct power to where its needed over longer distances.
It's unlikely that Denmark's energy will ever come 100% from wind power -- but with rising distributed generation (solar panels on homes), truly massive potential for offshore wind in the North Sea, and ample biomass infrastructure to pick up the slack, don't rule out the possibility that they might come pretty close.
And what lessons might we learn from its example, in the interest of Denmark-ifying other societies' energy habits? Well, as the top brass keeps telling me here, making (and sticking to) a long-sighted, clearly laid-out plan is integral for stimulating investment and public support. Ample resources for R&D; -- in Denmark, those resources come partly from higher energy taxes -- are important. Extracting sound lessons from the crises we face -- rising oil prices, climate threats -- and translating that into appropriate policy is another.
Could Denmark-ifying the World Stop Climate Change?


A New Yorker, Sarah Poulterer married Joseph Harrison in 1836 and had at least five children: Annie (b. 1839); William Henry (b. 1837); Alicia McNeill (b. 1845); Marie Olga (b. 1847); Theodore Leland (b. 1849).
She moved to St Petersburg, Russia in 1843, when her husband's firm was contracted by the Russian government to build locomotives and freight cars, and lived there until 1850. Her husband was also an important art collector. After his death Sarah disposed much of the collection.
Nicholas B. Wainwright, 'Joseph Harrison, Jr., A Forgotten Art Collector,' Antiques, October 1972, vol. 102, pp. 660-668.


I know what you're thinking, but, no, I'm not replacing Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in the Avengers series. Last week, I came on board to an awesome webseries where I do play a mysterious commander of sorts, employing four unlikely heros. We shot episodes 1 to 3 (out of 10) last week, so look out for the release dates!


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Your local South Bucks Hospice charity shop always needs people to help. The roles are varied and Volunteers spend anything from an hour a week dusting and tidying, serving and chatting with customers, using the till and helping to sort, control and label stock.
Join the team of friendly volunteers in your local charity shop and help support South Bucks Hospice.
Every hour that a Volunteer gives helps us achieve our goal of providing local people with life limiting conditions a place to come and receive care, therapies and support.


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Madhumita Sarcar is an Indian  actress from Kolkata, known for playing the lead roles of Pakhi Ghosh Dostidaar Singha Roy in Bojhena Se Bojhena and Dr. Emon Mukherjee in Kusum Dola.   She is most popular for her commercially and critically successful Movie  'Cheeni' .

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Toward a Free and Virtuous Society: Foundations for Flourishing
In thinking about material poverty, it's essential to consider what the foundations for human flourishing are. How does our view of the human person, theology, economics, and government affect our approach to material poverty? How should we view these topics?
Once that intellectual foundation is set, what actions should we take to effectively battle poverty? Enterprise and trade have been the normative methods by which people have risen out of poverty. Why is it important that nonprofits embrace entrepreneurship & business in order to serve the material poor in a sustainable, dignity-affirming manner?
Please join other members of the Accord Network for a conference that seeks to answer these questions. Through various presentations and extensive discussion, attendees will learn what foundations are necessary for human flourishing and be exposed to concepts that best harness the creative capacity and potential of the people they seek to serve.
NOTE: Only applicants from organizations that belong to the Accord Network will receive consideration. Accepted applicants will have all of their conference material expenses and lodging covered.
Anne Rathbone Bradley, Ph.D.
Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics
Vice President of Economic Initiatives
Anne Rathbone Bradley, Ph.D. is the vice president of economic initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, where she develops and commissions research toward a systematic biblical theology of economic freedom. She is a visiting professor at Georgetown University and has previously taught at George Mason University and at Charles University, Prague. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Bernard Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy. She served as the associate director for the program in economics, politics, and the law at the James M. Buchanan Center at George Mason University.
Dr. Rathbone Bradley's academic work focuses on the political economy of terrorism with specific emphasis on the industrial organization of al-Qaeda. Her academic research has been published in scholarly journals and edited volumes. She is currently working on a book that analyzes the political economy of al-Qaeda post 9/11. Based on her academic research she also worked as an economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Terrorism Analysis.
Dr. Rathbone Bradley received her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2006 during which time she was a James M. Buchanan scholar.
Peter Greer
HOPE International
Peter Greer is President and CEO of HOPE International, a global Christ-centered microenterprise development organization serving throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.
Prior to joining HOPE, Peter worked internationally as a microfinance advisor in Cambodia, technical advisor for Self-Help Development Foundation in Zimbabwe, and managing director for Urwego Community Bank in Rwanda.
He received a B.S. in international business from Messiah College and an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School. Peter has written The Poor Will Be Glad (with Phil Smith), The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good (with Anna Haggard), Mission Drift (with Chris Horst, and selected as a 2015 Book Award Winner from Christianity Today), Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing (with Chris Horst), Watching Seeds Grow (with his son Keith), 40/40 Vision (with Greg Lafferty), The Giver and the Gift (with David Weekley), Created to Flourish (with Phil Smith), and The Board and the CEO (with David Weekley).
Currently, Peter serves as the entrepreneur-in-residence at Messiah College and as a Praxis Venture Partner.
Peter and his wife, Laurel, live in Lancaster, PA, with their three children, Keith, Lilianna, and Myles.
Roxanne Addink deGraaf
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Roxanne Addink de Graaf is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Partners Worldwide, with a lifelong passion for the organization's vision of a world without poverty where all have life and have it abundantly. She occasionally steps in as an adjunct professor at Eastern University's MBA program and served as an editor for the BAM Think Tank paper on BAM at the Base of the Pyramid. Roxanne thrives on creativity and loves to be part of unleashing the innovation and reconciling impact of faithful entrepreneurs around the globe. Prior to Partners Worldwide, Roxanne served with World Renew in Kenya, was a town planner, and worked at a kitchen/business incubator in Taos, New Mexico.
J. Daryl Charles, Ph.D.
Acton Institute
Affiliated Scholar
J. Daryl Charles, Ph.D. is a 2018 Affiliate Scholar of the Acton Institute, serves as a contributing editor of the journal Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy and the journal Touchstone, and is an affiliated scholar of the John Jay Institute. Charles is author, co-author or editor of fifteen books, including, most recently, (with Mark David Hall) America's Wars: A Just War Perspective(University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming), Natural Law and Religious Freedom: The Role of Moral First Things in Grounding and Protecting the First Freedom(Routledge, 2017), (with David B. Capes) Thriving in Babylon: Essays on Honor of A.J. Conyers (Pickwick, 2011), A Return to Moral First Things: Retrieving the Natural Law (Eerdmans, 2008), and Virtue amidst Vice (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
He has taught at Taylor University and Union University, served as director and senior fellow of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought & Practice, and was a 2013/14 visiting professor in the honors program at Berry College. Charles served as a 2007/8 William B. Simon visiting fellow in religion and public life at the James Madison Program, Princeton University, as well as the 2003/4 visiting fellow of the Institute for Faith & Learning, Baylor University. The focus of Charles' research and writing is religion and society, the ethics of war and peace, the natural law, and Christian social ethics. Prior to entering the university classroom, Charles did public policy work in the realm of criminal justice in Washington, DC.
Matt Hangen
Matt has a bachelor's and master's degree in Biblical Theology and Missiology, 5 years of experience as a youth minister, was a full-time missionary in Togo, West Africa for five years, and has been with Water4 since 2011, taking on senior leadership at Water4 in 2016 where he serves as President and CEO.
While serving as missionaries in West Africa, Matt and his wife Grace linked up with Water4 after searching for a better way to do manual well drilling than the way they were previously doing it. Water4 shared their desire to put financially and technologically sustainable solutions in the hands of local, missional businesses. In 2011 when ongoing medical treatments required the Hangen's relocation to the U.S., Water4 was happy to gain someone with the field experience to travel and train up-and-coming drill teams throughout the world. Architecting Water4's programmatic approach from the ground up, Matt leads from the front line and not an ivory tower.
Water4 believes in using F.I.R.E. Faith: Infusing faith in Jesus and the desire to do God's will into everything we do. Innovation: The constant pursuit of creative, lasting solutions to complex problems. Reimagine: Inspiring people to think differently about the water crisis. Empower: Partnering with local people to solve local problems sustained by local resources. Safe water changes everything. When affordable access to safe water is available to all, communities thrive and lives are changed forever. Safe water is just the beginning. Hygiene and sanitation education is critical for ending waterborne diseases in the communities Water4 serves. Water4 started with a dream where the people suffering from the water crisis would be the ones to ultimately solve it. That dream is coming true today.
Matt and his wife Grace have two beautiful daughters and live in Guthrie, Oklahoma and enjoy all things outdoors.
Adam J. MacLeod, J.D.
Associate Professor of Law
Adam J. MacLeod, J.D. is Associate Professor at Faulkner University, Jones School of Law; a Thomas Edison Fellow in the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason University; and a former visiting fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is co-editor of Foundations of Law (Carolina Academic Press 2017) and author of Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015) and dozens of scholarly articles and essays. He holds degrees from Gordon College and the University of Notre Dame Law School.
Rev. Robert A. Sirico
Rev. Robert A. Sirico received his Master of Divinity degree from the Catholic University of America following undergraduate study at the University of Southern California and the University of London. During his studies and early ministry, he experienced a growing concern over the lack of training religious studies students receive in fundamental economic principles, leaving them poorly equipped to understand and address today's social problems. As a result of these concerns, Fr. Sirico co-founded the Acton Institute with Kris Alan Mauren in 1990.
As president of the Acton Institute, Fr. Sirico lectures at colleges, universities, and business organizations throughout the U.S. and abroad. His writings on religious, political, economic, and social matters are published in a variety of journals, including: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, theLondon Financial Times, the Washington Times, the Detroit News, and National Review. Fr. Sirico is often called upon by members of the broadcast media for statements regarding economics, civil rights, and issues of religious concern, and has provided commentary for CNN, ABC, the BBC, NPR, and CBS' 60 Minutes, among others.
In April of 1999, Fr. Sirico was awarded an honorary doctorate in Christian Ethics from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and in May of 2001, Universidad Francisco Marroquin awarded him an honorary doctorate in Social Sciences. He is a member of the prestigious Mont Pèlerin Society, the American Academy of Religion, and the Philadelphia Society, and is on the Board of Advisors of the Civic Institute in Prague. Father Sirico also served on the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1994 to 1998. His pastoral ministry has included a chaplaincy to AIDS patients at the National Institutes of Health. He is the Pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The Acton Institute maintains a vigorous editorial outreach, especially through its president, Rev. Robert A. Sirico. This site maintains an archive of many of his essays and reviews.
Father Sirico holds dual Italian and American citizenship.
Kim Tan, Ph.D.
Springhill Management
Dato Dr Kim Tan is the Chairman of SpringHill Management, a private fund management company specialising in biotech and social venture capital investments. He is a partner of several social impact funds including Inqo Investments (South Africa), Springhill Equity Partners (US), Novastar Ventures (Kenya) and Garden Impact Investment (Singapore). He is the co-founder of the Transformational Business Network and is on the advisory boards of the John Templeton Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Citizenship Trust and PovertyCure. He was the founder chairman of NCI Cancer Hospital (Malaysia) and the inventor of sheep monoclonal antibodies. He is a Pro-Chancellor of Surrey University (UK), a board member of the Centre for Enterprise, Markets & Ethics (Oxford) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK). He is a former board member of the Saracens Rugby Club, Surrey University and the APEC Life Science Innovation Forum.
La Jolla Shores Hotel
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The event will begin on Monday, February 18th at 4:00pm with a reception and dinner, and will conclude at noon on Wednesday February 20th, with a boxed lunch to follow.
NOTE: Only applicants from organizations that belong to the Accord Network will receive consideration. This is a complimentary event for accepted applicants. Conference fees, lodging, and all meals during the conference will be covered for accepted applicants.
Applications close January 18th, 2019
Dress for this conference is business casual.
Child, Family, & State: Religious Liberty in a Secular Age
Foundations of the Free and Virtuous Society
Liberty & the Declaration of Independence
The Fall of Rome and Modern Parallels
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Andrew Keir
Andrew Keir (born Andrew Buggy on April 3, 1926 in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK; died October 5, 1997 in London, England, UK) was a British actor, well-known for his roles in several Hammer Films horror film productions during the 1960s.
Keir, the son of a coal-miner, initially worked in the coal mines of his home town himself, leaving school to become a miner at the age of fourteen. He worked the mines for six years, before in 1946, at the age of twenty, joining the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre to train as an actor.
He made his film debut in the early Hammer film The Lady Craves Excitement in 1950. His film work then went on to include well-known pictures such as A Night to Remember (1958), Cleopatra (1963), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Lord Jim (1965) and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966). Probably his best-known role during this period, and his major starring role, was as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the 1967 Hammer Films adaptation of the BBC television serial Quatermass and the Pit. Later film roles included parts in the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps and Rob Roy (1995).
Keir also enjoyed an extensive television career, with guest starring roles in a variety of popular British television series, from Ivanhoe in 1958 to Hamish Macbeth in 1996. In between, he appeared in popular series such as The Avengers, The Saint, Taggart and Boon. He also starred in the popular 1976 Australian television series The Outsiders.
Keir also worked on the radio, most notably when he returned to the role of Quatermass for the 1996 drama-documentary The Quatermass Memoirs, broadcast on BBC Radio 3. This made him one of only two actors - Brian Donlevy being the other - to play the part of the Professor twice.
Keir was married to Joyce Scott, and had five children: Andrew, Maureen, Sean, Deidrie and Julie. Sean, Deidrie and Julie all became actors, with Sean and Deidrie both later moving into producing.
Andrew Keir Facts
Birthday April 3, 1926
Birthplace Shotts, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of death October 5, 1997 (age 71)
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